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Conservation News and Blogging. It's not all bad out there, this is where we prove that!

Enjoy the Musings of a Conservationist

[Euro_badger @euro_badger]

Sizewell Nuclear Power Station. EDF continue to secretly clear grassland habitat, without SZC planning permission. Including closing badger setts. Disgraceful.

[The Wildlife Trusts @WildlifeTrusts]

Here is the wonderful moment @DerbysWildlife released their first beaver at Willington Wetlands!
She was shortly followed by her partner and they are now busy settling into their new home. 🦫💚🦫
https://t.co/rVMR6eNiXa
📷Kayleigh Wright

[Rewilding Britain @RewildingB]

We're in absolute awe! @RewildingEurope & @treesforlifeuk has brought together a coalition of landowners & communities to rewild half a million acres of Scottish Highlands - boosting habitat connectivity, & social and economic opportunities👏🏾👏

https://t.co/YcZDSsgE1A

[theenvironmentalmatters @environmentmats]

So exciting to see this becoming more common place 😍😍

[Isabella Tree @isabella_tree]

If you can lend your voice - or signature - to try and stop this devastating housing development that would block Knepp forever from fulfilling the aims of nature recovery in the Environment Bill we’d be so enormously grateful. #naturerestoration #ClimateCrisis

[Rewilding Britain @RewildingB]

What cheery news to start the weekend with! 🤗

Beavers set to be released in London as part of urban rewilding https://t.co/ndqdQbMM4e

[Indy Kiemel Greene @GreeneIndy]

Absolutely ecstatic to find this GORGEOUS Cuckoo chick being fed by a pair of Robins in @RSPBSherwood.
Finding a chick has always been a dream of mine.I knew it was going to be good, but not this good.Hearing about the life cycle of Cuckoos is crazy enough, actually seeing it!🤯

[theenvironmentalmatters @environmentmats]

The #beginnings of our new solitary bee hotel! Any advice gratefully received 💜🐝 #nature

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Wildlife bridges and nature corridors can create much-needed connectivity to help plants and animals move between fragmented habitats. More please! (Photo from Switzerland via @WildlifeTrusts)

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Wildflowers, not weeds! Letting plants like dandelions, daisies & thistles grow in gardens, community spaces & road verges boosts biodiversity. It creates wildlife corridors, provides nectar for pollinators – and, we think, looks beautiful!
More: https://t.co/eU7ZxUooQQ
#nature

[theenvironmentalmatters @environmentmats]

Now this is leading by example! Thank you for showing that we CAN find ways to make progress if we work together and communicate! 👊🏻

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

UPDATE - After the appeal we put out last night to @EnvAgency @ClintonDevon @kiergroup & @NESouthWest there was no nest destruction today at the River Otter Restoration Project in Devon and the partners are reconsidering their plans - thank you . Top work @WiseBirding et al .

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Joy !

[theenvironmentalmatters @environmentmats]

The wood anemones are here and the bluebells are close in my #favorite wood. #springishere 😍

[theenvironmentalmatters @environmentmats]

What an achievement! This sets a brilliant precedent for future #marine preservation legislation.

Congratulations and Thank You #HelpOurKelp campaign

[Marine Conservation Society @mcsuk]

Breaking news! 🚨 Trawling is no longer allowed over 300km2 of seabed off Sussex thanks to a new byelaw. A big win for the #HelpOurKelp campaign and the reintroduction of kelp forest to the Sussex coast 👏

[theenvironmentalmatters @environmentmats]

Knepp is an icon to #rewilding initiatives across the globe. Potential plans to turn this estate into a biological island need to be reconsidered as a matter of urgency.

https://t.co/4RDIlHzMh4

[theenvironmentalmatters @environmentmats]

On #RewildingDay I wrote a little piece on 3 different #conservation stories which have inspired me recently.

Let me know what you think! 🦍🦜

https://t.co/eoFSaBCwzp

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Top work @cardiffcouncil for taking this decision . UK Councils take a look at this for better practice , if you all did this imagine how much benefit for our declining pollinators ! #SaveOurPollinators https://t.co/wGrsJBgHMc

[theenvironmentalmatters @environmentmats]

Continuing on from my previous blogpost, the #BadgerCull is still happening.

Even though the #science tells us it’s making the problem it’s designed to solve worse!

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

The Government talk about ending the badger cull but it's not over yet - new licenses can still be issued until 2022 which means that badgers can continue to be killed until 2026 . These are 'protected' animals . . .
Please help - sign this petition https://t.co/2qdMuOJnTC

[theenvironmentalmatters @environmentmats]

@writethewrongs2 Ability?? High. But Intent? not so much!

[theenvironmentalmatters @environmentmats]

Our bumbles are just starting to emerge. Let’s support these fresh queens! 🐝

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

A bumblebee can only fly for about 40 minutes between feeding. But we've lost 97% of our wiłdflower meadows. So please plant at least one nectar-rich flower in your garden or community this year. Your one flower could be the pit stop that saves a bee 🐝